From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
7 July [1854]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 123
Summary:
CD’s view requires only that ancient organisms resemble embryological stages of existing ones. Thus "highness" in plants is difficult to evaluate because they have no larval stages. Would compare highest members of two groups, rather than archetype, to determine which group was higher. Against Forbes’s polarity and parallelism.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
